- To increase his wealth.
- To increase his power.
It is that simple. Nothing else matters—not the country, not the party, not the people. It all boils down to “Me!” That is what motivates Trump. He sees people as tools to increase his wealth.
But it comes with a cost.
The cost? Stripping government of its safety net: cuts to SNAP, cuts to WIC, and cuts to Section 8 housing—throwing people out onto the street to be rounded up and placed into the poor farms and almshouses of the nineteenth century.
Bipartisan Policy CenterFrancis TorresAugust 18, 2025On July 24, the Trump administration issued Executive Order 14321, titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” outlining sweeping changes in federal homelessness policy. The order marks a sharp break from two decades of federal consensus around the Housing First model, which prioritizes permanent housing and voluntary services. Instead, it centers behavioral health as the primary focus of homelessness policy, introducing mandates and enforcement mechanisms intended to reshape how assistance is delivered and who is eligible.[...]What President Trump’s Executive Order Does
- Limits federal support for Housing First — HUD and HHS are directed to revise regulations, grant requirements, and guidance to end support for Housing First policies that, in the administration’s view, deprioritize accountability and fail to promote treatment, recovery, and self-sufficiency.
- Conditions housing assistance on behavioral health treatment — HUD and HHS are instructed to ensure federal housing programs require, where possible, active participation in treatment for substance use disorders or severe mental illness.
- Prioritizes support for jurisdictions enforcing public safety laws — Agencies are directed to prioritize jurisdictions that enforce bans on urban camping, loitering, squatting, and open-air drug use when awarding discretionary grants.
- Encourages expansion of involuntary civil commitment — DOJ is directed to seek reversal of judicial precedents and consent decrees that limit civil commitment and to support states in adopting more flexible commitment and treatment laws.
- Restricts harm reduction efforts — DOJ must assess whether federally funded organizations that operate safe consumption sites, distribute drug paraphernalia, or allow on-site illicit drug use are violating federal law, and initiate enforcement actions where applicable.
- Mandates interagency data sharing with law enforcement — HHS, HUD, and DOJ are instructed to develop policies to collect and share behavioral health and homelessness data with law enforcement authorities, where permitted by law.
I know many trans people who rely on Section 8 housing, and they are worried. They work manual jobs, often earning minimum wage. The National Homelessness Law Center writes,
November 14th, 2025Today, instead of using their power to help people pay rent, access healthcare, or lower the cost of groceries, the Trump administration doubled down on backwards polices that will make homelessness worse. These changes will force 170,000 people- mostly seniors and people with disabilities- who are currently stably housed, back into homelessness. Instead of helping people, HUD's ideologically driven funding guidelines leverage nearly $4 billion to play political games that will:
- Restrict funding from cities that refuse to treat homelessness as a crime
- Impose ideological mandates on states to attack trans people and immigrants
- Deny funding to jurisdictions that recognize the common sense and data-backed truth that housing and support solve homelessness.
"Let us be clear: Donald Trump's approach to homelessness does nothing to address the sky-high cost of rent, which remains the main cause of homelessness. Instead, his reckless actions are cruel and backward and will force even more people to sleep outside," said Jesse Rabinowitz of the National Homelessness Law Center. He continued, "Trump's approach towards homelessness will worsen the lives of most people, waste taxpayer money, and instead direct taxpayer dollars towards debunked, disproven, and failed approaches to homelessness. Like many of his policies, Trump's attacks on homeless people will hurt us all, but will do extra harm to Black, brown, migrant, disabled, queer, and transgender communities."[....]Trump's attacks on homeless people are not new. He has long talked of forcing people who can't pay rent into government-run detention camps. HUD Secretary Scott Turner, during his Senate nomination, failed to reject the idea of forcing homeless people into detention camps. And now, Turner's agency just released a funding plan that makes Utah's heinous plan to create the largest government-run homeless detention camp in the country easier. This shameful approach, driven by Trump's anti-homeless edict, will include over 800 involuntary beds, the likelihood of forced labor, and will be funded in part by defunding proven housing programs to fund a jail-like camp. We've seen this before. At no time in history has forcing people into a camp been acceptable, and this time is no different.
That’s the goal of Trump & Company: homeless detention centers alongside immigrant detention centers.
Who will be next?
Us?
The trans community? It sure looks like they are setting us up as the next victims of Trump wrath!
Is Trump having them built now?
Recent cuts to flagship federal program that funds housing and other services described as ‘chaotic and disruptive’The GuardianIsabeau DoucetMon 19 Jan 2026When Shawn Pleasants first heard that the federal government was tearing up almost two decades of homelessness policy, it sent chills up his spine.Pleasants, 58, was brought right back to the moment he lost his car and was forced to start living on Los Angeles’s streets. “That feeling of, you could never be safe – there’s no more future,” he said.He’d spend a decade living on the streets of Koreatown, until the day he and his husband received a section 8 voucher from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Continuum of Care (CoC) program.Continuum of Care is the federal government’s flagship program to support state and local governments and non-profits in funding housing and other services for individuals, like Pleasants, at risk of or experiencing homelessness.[...]But in the past months, the Trump administration has tried to issue sweeping policy shifts to the program, some of which it has since reversed, others of which have been temporarily halted by the courts. The chaos has sown widespread confusion among local governments, providers and people unsure whether they will face eviction in the winter months.“It has been a massively chaotic and disruptive moment for our organization and all of the local governments and non-profit homeless service providers that we partner with,” said Amanda Wehrman, the director of strategy and evaluation at Homebase, a non-profit that provides technical assistance to many CoCs.“It’s been really chaotic both in terms of the stops and starts, the uncertainty about funding, the inability to think strategically about what comes next.”The first changes came in November, when HUD announced it was redirecting the majority of federal housing vouchers away from permanent housing to funding for temporary shelters. Jurisdictions applying for a piece of the $4bn in annual federal homelessness funds would only be able to spend 30% of their grants on permanent housing, down from around 90%.
Ask yourself why? Why is Trump doing this? Lets go back to the my opening statement?
What is it in it for Trump? Let me count the ways:
- They are making millions building the camps!
- They are making millions running the camps!
- They give millions to Trump campaign funds!
Who are "they?
Trump donors!
So who is in the Trump's adminstration?
- Bessent, Scott (Treasury): A hedge fund manager and key architect of economic policy. While Forbes estimated his wealth in the hundreds of millions, other reports frequently categorize him as a billionaire due to his history as a high-level investment executive.
- Burgum, Doug (Interior): Software billionaire overseeing federal lands and energy. He built his fortune by selling Great Plains Software to Microsoft for $1.1 billion.
- Feinberg, Stephen (Deputy Defense Secretary): A private equity billionaire (net worth approx. $5B) and co-founder of Cerberus Capital Management.
- Isaacman, Jared (NASA): Tech billionaire and private astronaut chosen to lead the agency that currently contracts his own companies (Shift4 Payments and his partnership with SpaceX).
- Kushner, Charles (Ambassador to France): A billionaire real estate developer and father-in-law to Ivanka Trump.
- Loeffler, Kelly (Small Business Administration): A billionaire former Senator married to the CEO of the company that owns the New York Stock Exchange.
- Lutnick, Howard (Commerce): CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald (net worth approx. $1.5B), overseeing trade and tariffs.
- McMahon, Linda (Education): Former WWE executive and billionaire donor (along with her husband, Vince McMahon).
- Musk, Elon (DOGE): Tapped to lead the Department of Government Efficiency. As the world's wealthiest person, his companies (Tesla, SpaceX) hold billions in government contracts.
- Sacks, David (AI & Crypto Czar): A venture capital billionaire and close ally of Peter Thiel, tasked with deregulating the tech and crypto industries.
- Stephens, Warren (Ambassador to the UK): An investment banking billionaire and major GOP donor.
- Witkoff, Steve (Middle East Envoy): A billionaire real estate mogul and personal friend/golfing partner of Trump.
If this doesn't show you who the Trump adminstration is really working for then maybe this will,
Common Dreams reports that,
Over 2025, the combined wealth of all US billionaires climbed to $8.1 trillion, a 21% increase over 2025, up from $6.7 trillion exactly a year ago.Chuck CollinsJan 02, 2026The first year of the Trump administration was a very happy new year for the US billionaire class. The richest 15 billionaires, all with assets more than $100 billion, saw their combined wealth surge 33%, from $2.4 trillion to $3.2 trillion. This is double the growth of the S&P 500 over 2025, which was 16.4%.Over 2025, the combined wealth of all US billionaires climbed to $8.1 trillion, a 21% increase over 2025, up from $6.7 trillion exactly a year ago.Based on an Institute for Policy Studies analysis of data from the Forbes real time billionaire list from 2025, there are 935 billionaires in the United States with combined wealth totaling $8.1 trillion at the close of 2025 markets. This is an increase from 813 US billionaires at end close of 2024 markets, with combined wealth of $6.7 trillion.
So tell me who is Trump really working for?
WOW!! All those homeless could be a army if organized marching forward. Not going to get anything from this regime so might as well put your bodies on the line. But let's remember that it is not only the fascist who do such things to the homeless. Case in point under the present democrat regime in Hartford Ct. a homeless camp a bit before X-Mass was torn down and the people scattered. So small city democrats can be just as nasty and just as ruthless as those in power in D.C. I can only hope that someone educates the people on the evils of the Capitalist System and the rich and mean it. Let's not be Bonzo the chimp playing footsies with the dictator. Learn the failures of organizing in the 1930's when this country had a chance to change the system but just didn't want to go too far. Now is the time for everyone to say which side are you on? Have we learned that tweaking and tucking the system is just not enough, that reform is like a bandaid and perhaps it is time that we try something else. Have we learned that yes the poor will always be with us, but it is the rich whom we can no longer afford.
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